The most surprising revelation from NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover—that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater—has ...
Evidence is mounting about what may be a wealth of organic molecules – a potential indicator of life – on Mars, with new findings from Nasa’s Perseverance rover suggesting the presence of a ...
Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to “search for potential evidence of past ...
The agency’s head calls the current plan for delivering samples collected by the Perseverance rover ‘too expensive’ and its ...
Mar. 13, 2024 — A deeply eroded giant volcano, active from ancient through recent times and with possible remnants of glacier ice near its base, had been hiding near Mars' equator in plain sight.
NASA is asking its various research centers as well as private industry for new ideas about how to get Mars samples back to ...
Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals and biomolecules on early Earth—some of which may have been delivered from space.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has beamed back its final message to Earth, which included a heart-warming goodbye to mission scientists. The record-breaking robot will now spend the rest of its ...
Apr. 5, 2024 — Scientists may be one step closer to unlocking one of the great mysteries of the universe after calculating that neutron stars might hold a key to helping us understand elusive ...
NASA is seeking innovative methods that could help retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars in the future.The rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, has been gathering ...
"The bottom line is that $11 billion is too expensive, and not returning samples until 2040 is unacceptably too long." NASA is looking for a new way to get its precious Mars samples back to Earth.